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Having spent the weekend with the new car, I must admit that it's difficult to find fault. The touch screen menus are a bit confusing, but it will just take time to learn them.
However, the one thing I do find annoying is the fuel consumption reading. On my previous Mercedes, it showed the average mpg for the trip, or you could reset it to take an average over a selected part of the journey. The 208 shows an instantaneous figure, which you'd think would be useful, but actually it's the opposite. When you drive up a hill it shows 28 mpg,down a hill it shows 80 mpg, pull away from traffic lights it shows 24 mpg, coast up to red traffic lights it shows 900 mpg!
I've hardly ever seen it show a stable figure that you can take as a realistic indication of the fuel economy you're actually achieving.
OK, so in my previous Mercedes C320, it used to normally show about 19 mpg around town, and I'm pretty confident the 208 is bettering it, but I just can't work out by how much!
However, the one thing I do find annoying is the fuel consumption reading. On my previous Mercedes, it showed the average mpg for the trip, or you could reset it to take an average over a selected part of the journey. The 208 shows an instantaneous figure, which you'd think would be useful, but actually it's the opposite. When you drive up a hill it shows 28 mpg,down a hill it shows 80 mpg, pull away from traffic lights it shows 24 mpg, coast up to red traffic lights it shows 900 mpg!
I've hardly ever seen it show a stable figure that you can take as a realistic indication of the fuel economy you're actually achieving.
OK, so in my previous Mercedes C320, it used to normally show about 19 mpg around town, and I'm pretty confident the 208 is bettering it, but I just can't work out by how much!